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George MacDonald Fraser


Born
in Carlisle, Cumbria, England
April 02, 1925

Died
January 02, 2008

Genre
Historical Fiction, Humor and Comedy


George MacDonald Fraser is best known for his Flashman series of historical novels, purportedly written by Harry Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days. The novels are presented as "packets" of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman, who looks back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series begins with Flashman, and is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. P.G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, 鈥淚f ever there was a time when I felt that 鈥榳atcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet鈥 stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.鈥 ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 75,384 ratings · 4,358 reviews · 106 distinct works 鈥 Similar authors
Flashman (The Flashman Pape...
4.05 avg rating — 15,504 ratings — published 1969 — 101 editions
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4.13 avg rating — 7,970 ratings — published 1970 — 67 editions
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Flashman at the Charge (Fla...
4.38 avg rating — 5,453 ratings — published 1973 — 53 editions
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Flash for Freedom (The Flas...
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Flashman and the Mountain o...
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“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman at the Charge
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“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by鈥晅hough mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman
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